Oil panic and the global crisis [[electronic resource] ] : predictions and myths / / Steven M. Gorelick

• Autore: Gorelick Steven M
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.823; 333.8232; 622.1828
• Soggetto topico: Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum reserves - Forecasting; Energy consumption - Forecasting
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Oil Panic and the Global Crisis; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About Units; Getting Started: What Do You Think?; 1: End of the Oil Era; 2: The Global Oil Landscape; 3: The Historical Resource Depletion Debate; 4: Counter-Arguments to Imminent Global Oil Depletion; 5: Beyond Panic; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of a succession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlying arguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarized and then c
• Titolo autorizzato: Oil panic and the global crisis
• ISBN: 1-4443-5989-4; 1-282-34361-0; 9786612343612; 1-4443-1452-1; 1-4443-1453-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139920703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II